Is Stream-oriented a better UI paradigm than Document-oriented for today's knowledge workers?
Really, what I mostly do today is stream management. And I suspect this is true for the vast majority of people. I don’t deal with writing documents,... more »
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Thanks Bill
Thanks to Bill Gates. This post is a bio and timeline of the life of Bill Gates.
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Google App Engine and My Thoughts
rick 
via itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com
After trying Google App Engine for some time, there are goods and bads to it.
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You Might be Overengineering your Project If ...
Really nice and funny description of the symptoms of the overengineering ... I recognized most of my old projects ...
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The Effective Software Developer's Reading List
What books should all developers read? At least, the ones who want to become better and truly understand their craft. Here is a list, broken into... more »
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ME4Android: Java ME on top of Android
Poliplus Software took the ME4SE project, which makes Java 2 Micro Edition APIs such as the LCDUI classes and the Generic Connection Framework... more »
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Ten Common Misconceptions about Grails
As is usually the case with anything "new" there’s a lot of FUD and confusion out there with people who have not used Grails yet, that may be stopping... more »
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Android Password Manager
This is a small Android demo application to store passwords, demonstrating the use of db4o with Android.
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Download K-Lite Codec Pack 3.57 (Full)
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding... more »
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Domain-specific programming languages
Pedro Santos via psantos-blog.zi-yu.com
Thoughts about using language-oriented programming for very specific domain applications. Is this a new programming paradigm or is this just a best... more »
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Samurai Principle
A SoftwareDevelopmentGuideline; as applied to JavaLanguage and PythonLanguage, this means you should either complete your contract and return a valid... more »
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Programming Language Video Lectures
WOW! Check out this blog! Video lectures on C++, Java, Perl, Python, functional programming (symbolic processing in scheme). There are also like... more »
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How Serious Microsoft is about IronRuby and DLR
he Author is not sure about the Support for IronRuby from Microsoft. He has many fears with many reason and clearly explains each of them.He refers to... more »
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What nine of the world’s largest websites are running on
Have you ever wondered what technology some of the really big websites use? The likes of Digg, YouTube, Myspace and so on? There is a very... more »
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NetBeans IDE: Filthy Rich Client? (Part 1)
bloid via javalobby.org
In Chet Haase and Romain Guy's " Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications ", a 'filthy rich... more »
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Google Collections Library
bloid via code.google.com
The Google Collections Library 0.5 (ALPHA) is a suite of new collections and collection-related goodness for Java 5.0, brought to you by... more »
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Does nobody care about writing good code anymore?
bloid via discuss.joelonsoftware.com
Sorry, this is a rant but I feel the need to vent. I work with .NET technologies a lot, and one thing I've noticed is that nearly no one actually... more »
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Using Bluetooth in .NET
I am busy preparing for a talk on Windows XP Embedded. The talk is aimed at developers showing an example of an end-to-end embedded device being... more »
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Creating Recursive SQL Calls for Tables with Parent-Child Relationships
bloid via webinade.com
I ran into an interesting problem today while considering how to find out where subordinate employees fit into an organizational chart. The problem... more »
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Is BDD TDD done right?
Every once in awhile when I talk with people about Behavior Driven Development (or BDD) they mention that BDD sounds a lot like TDD done right. By... more »
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31 Sources of Quality, Free Icons
A comprehensive list of free icon resources online.
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The Art of Commenting Code
No matter what other people say, commenting source code is an art form. It takes finesse (and sometimes an English degree :P) to properly comment your... more »
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What are Microformats and why you should care
Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 will both support Microformats. Google and Yahoo have also integrated them into some of their services. Find out... more »
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Interview with Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror
Even if you are just slightly interested in programming you probably know Jeff Atwood or his blog Coding Horror. The blog is attracting over 500,000... more »
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The wrong attitude of learning on the job
bloid via buunguyen.net
I can’t tell you enough about how much surprised I was when some developers applying for senior .NET development position, when being interviewed by... more »
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